Song · Laura Marling
“Held Down” by Laura Marling
From the album Song for Our Daughter (2020)
“Held Down” by Laura Marling appears on 5 radio countdowns from 4 stations in 2020. It was first released in 2020 on the album Song for Our Daughter. Its best result is #7 on the WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2020. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #59 indie & aaa song of 2020, #5,901 indie & aaa song of all time and #430 of the '20s.
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"Held Down" comes from Song for Our Daughter, Laura Marling's seventh album, released on 10 April 2020 and co-produced with her longtime collaborator Ethan Johns. The whole record is addressed to an imaginary daughter, an idea sparked by her reading of Maya Angelou's Letter to My Daughter, and it gave her a way to offer the reassurance she found hard to give herself.
She wrote the song alone and plays guitar and sings it, with Nick Pini on bass, Dan See on drums, Anna Corcoran on piano and Johns on shakers; Johns and engineer Dom Monks mixed it. It's a small band for a close-up record, the kind of setting that leaves her voice nowhere to hide.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 107 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2020 | 199 |
| 2020 | 26 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2020 | 97 |
| 2020 | 7 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2020 | 100 |
| 2020 | 48 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2020 | 90 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1253 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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